[CM] Re: [PD] Snd as a pd external documentation.

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

Okey. But I'm not sure its a good idea. Snd objects are not 
deterministic. If you try to write an object in a different way 
(external/subpatch/pyext/etc.) that is supposed to to the same, it will
99% for sure behave slightly different.

The reason is that data-handling in the snd external are threaded and 
is run asynchronus to pd, and that all the dsp-handling is performed at 
once (once per cycle) for all snd objects, because of performance reasons. 
(dsp using the snd external is extremely efficient)

I'm afraid hiding these facts from the user can create confusing 
situations...

Regarding the system path settings, aren't they available somewhere 
anyway?

And whats a "newly developing namespace"?



On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:

>
> This would allow you to write bonafide Pd objects in snd.  What language they 
> are written in would be transparent to the user.  They would behave just like 
> objects.  They could be bundled into libraries, they would work with the 
> system path settings, they would work in the newly developing namespace, they 
> could have their own help patches, etc. etc.
>
> .hc
>
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 12:10 AM, Kjetil S. Matheussen wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hmm, I don't see the point. Having those extra four letters ("snd ") shows 
>> that it is an snd object, and not an external or a patch. Whats the point 
>> of hiding that information?
>> 
>> 
>> On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> It would be great if this was set up to use Pd's new generic loader 
>>> functionality.  Then you could write Pd objects directly in Guile/snd 
>>> without needing the [snd] object. It looks like you are most of the way 
>>> there.
>>> 
>>> There is currently a Common Language Runtime (C#, etc) API in the works 
>>> that is being ported to the new loader also.
>>> 
>>> Basically, you just write a little loader program that tells Pd how to 
>>> load an object that is written in snd.
>>> 
>>> .hc
>>> 
>>> On Feb 8, 2006, at 5:52 PM, Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi, this mail is to inform that Bill Schottstaedt just put up 
>>>> documentation for the snd pd external in the snd-manual:
>>>> http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/grfsnd.html#sndwithpd
>>>> The documentation also also contains a screen-shot of a pretty neat
>>>> stochastic pd patch made by Bill Sack, which use the snd external.
>>>> If you know (and like) lisp, pd and snd, you should check this out...
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